Heyo everyone! This is the first major update for the game, jam-packed with a bunch of fixes as well as some new snazzy features! Hope you are as excited as we are for this update to Diener Dates!

Let's start with the fun stuff; new features (with screenshots!).

• Chibis! All characters now have chibis sitting at their seats instead of their full scale model. Whilst they are certainly very pretty, the level of detail on the main portraits just did not look as good when viewed from further away. The characters have been turned into chibis when sitting in the restaurant, smaller versions of themselves.
• Journal! There is now a journal where you can view the characters and their details, so long as you have met them and progressed far enough with them. Progress further with them to gain more details on them and who they are!
• Tag display in shop! The shop now displays tags, yes that should have definitely been in the base game but it was clearly an oversight from our side. Every item in the shop now has a little icon associated with them to showcase what category they belong to. We might have to add this into the tutorial at some stage but for now we will sit back and see whether it is obvious enough what the icons mean.
• Expanded the tutorial slightly! Nothing major, but the tutorial is now a liiittle longer.
• Clear game data! Feel like starting completely a-new? You can now clear all of your game data with a simple button press in the settings menu.

As for the technical stuff;

• Fixed achievements: achievements now work as they should, my apologies this should have been done earlier but I did not realise they stopped working at some point toward the end of developing the first version of the game. I fully trusted that they were fail-safe enough not to do so.
• Added some flair to the endings: They no longer just "pop" up out of nowhere but slowly fade in as the final day of the run ends.
• Added a skip tutorial button: yeah yeah you can now skip the tutorial, I know that it may get repetetive over time but hey at least we revamped the tutorial in this version so that it is a little longer, might be worth checking out one last time at least!
• Added car "pedestrians": there are now cars moving outside the window along with the pedestrians, isn't that crazy?
• Cash machine fix: cash machine now displays your balance.
• Serena fix: you can now win when romancing Serena, there was a little bit of a code error there.
• UI scaling tweaks: UI should now scale properly with every screen resolution, unless your screen is like extremely wide, but that sounds like an iss-you and not an iss-me.
• Fixed some issues with the save system: it is no longer possible to skip rejecting a person to a date by simply leaving the game and launching it again. I know that confrontation is hard, but it's really mean to just ghost someone like that.
• General code cleanup: yeah we did some cleaning.

That's all for today folks! It has been a pleasure being the host of today's patch notes and I hope we'll meet again soon,

Tiger.